The White Album fiction A publication with reflexive intuitions

A publication with reflexive intuitions

king of the dead

from bats and keen-eyed owls capering across the starry sky to the bioluminescent creatures of the deep

heralds the arrival of a blazing and essential new voice in contemporary fiction

The White Album fiction A publication with reflexive intuitionsFirst published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the eraincluding Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mallthrough the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text